The best Cyber Monday deals

And, he said, “This generation, the millennials, are influencing shopping behaviors of higher generations more so than any generation I can recall”. In 2014, shoppers spent 8 per cent less time per trip and were 10 per cent more likely to make a purchase, compared to an average Christmas shopping trip, according to CACI research. Eclipsing Thanksgiving into “Black Friday Eve” reduced the crowd density.

“The price discounting has been creeping toward Halloween”, he said.

Justin and Emily Mace, of Canton, came to Alliance to shop on Black Friday instead of staying in Canton because they said it is easier to get around in Alliance.

Reports on in-store sales are expected later this weekend.

“It’s a good excuse to sleep in on Black Friday and not have to courageous the crowds”, he said. Around 30 million shoppers are estimated to have shopped on Thanksgiving Day, while almost 100 million were expected to shop on Black Friday. When the weather is good, they’re out and about.

The drop in Thanksgiving Day visits may also reflect a “social backlash” against stores opening on that day, Kearns said. “We had people lined up outside the door”.

And roughly 75% of this year’s dollars will be spent on just 1% of the product categories available – namely computers, televisions, phones, video games and other electronics, along with gift cards and toys – because people tend to buy more expensive items during the holidays, she said. The hoverboard sold out within the first couple of hours.

In the past Cyber Mondays, these TV brands went as low as 40% from the original price mark and the WiseBread report is predicting that the same will happen for the 2015 edition. In direct contradiction to the chaotic depictions of Black Friday, many of Greenville’s stores were all but empty. And believe it or not, a lot of the warm blankets and down comforters sold like hotcakes.

At Best Buy, three worldwide students said they were up at 9 a.m.to experience a cultural phenomenon they had only heard about.

With the continued shift of spending online in mind, retailers like Wal-Mart Stores and Target Corp are putting more of their deals on their websites or offering them over a longer period of time.

ShopperTrak still expects this year’s overall holiday season to net more for retailers than last year.

Better yet, Walmart has rolled out those deals early, as you can now view all of them on the company’s website as of today.

A 4.1 percent decline is far from minor, and renders indefensible the breezy confidence credited to “most analysts” in Rugaber’s fifth paragraph that “this year’s holiday sales…”

While the predicted in-store chaos of past year failed to materialise, analysts have forecast that the flood of customers snapping up deals online could lead to a total four-day spend of £3.2 billion.

ShopperTrak will release its final sales numbers on Tuesday.